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surrogate parent

collocation in English

meanings of surrogateand parent


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surrogate
adjective[before noun]
uk /ˈsʌr.ə.ɡət/ us /ˈsɝː.ə.ɡət/
replacing someone else or used instead of ...
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parent
noun[C]
uk /ˈpeə.rənt/ us /ˈper.ənt/
a mother or father of a person or an animal, or someone who looks after a person in the same way that a ...
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Examples of surrogate parent


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It was her older brother and older sister who acted as her surrogate parents.
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Relationships with nieces or nephews tend to be infrequent and perfunctory unless an aunt or uncle has been a surrogateparent.
In both cases, the older person had become a surrogateparent.
For example, where the older person has been a surrogateparent and a quasiparental role has emerged, the expectations and responsibilities observed more closely resemble those in parent-child relationships.
So often, after a divorce, quite naturally one finds a surrogateparent substituted for the natural one.
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Often violence is perpetrated not by the parent, but by a surrogateparent, for example, the live-in boyfriend.
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Because they lacked parenting, they need a surrogateparent to walk with them on the journey into adulthood.
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My own feeling is that one of the greatest sources of damage is the presentation of a surrogateparent and the indoctrination of a child.
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In addition to overseeing the daily running of the school, friends recall how lovingly he served as surrogateparent to the younger students.
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It is followed by a shorter section (three chapters) about older people as caregivers - as surrogate parents for grandchildren.
The three articles about grandparents as care-givers and surrogate parents are timely reminders of a growing societal problem, and of older people as resources in the care system.
The parents, or surrogate parents such as the grandparents, are a child's first educator.
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I am looking for people who will behave as surrogate parents.
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Over the past 20 or so years, but particularly the past 10 years, we have witnessed fathers disappearing from the scene and taxpayers taking on the responsibility of surrogate parents.
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Relationships with the presenters, who were surrogate parents and carers, were seen as central.
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But he was abandoned soon after birth by his surrogate parents, left to fend for himself in the mountains.
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